LIV Golf Chicago

LIV Golf Chicago
Tournament information
LocationBolingbrook, Illinois
Established2022
Course(s)Bolingbrook Golf Club (2024)
Par71
Length7,408 yards (6,774 m)
Tour(s)LIV Golf
MENA Tour
FormatIndividual and team stroke play
Prize fundUS$5,000,000 (individual)
US$20,000,000 (team)
Month playedSeptember
Tournament record score
Aggregate199 Jon Rahm (2024)
To par−13 Cameron Smith (2022)
−13 Bryson DeChambeau (2023)
Current champion
Spain Jon Rahm
Location map
Rich Harvest Farms is located in the United States
Rich Harvest Farms
Rich Harvest Farms
Location in the United States
Rich Harvest Farms is located in Illinois
Rich Harvest Farms
Rich Harvest Farms
Location in Illinois

The LIV Golf Chicago is a professional golf tournament held at Bolingbrook Golf Club in Bolingbrook, Illinois, outside of Chicago. It was held at Rich Harvest Farms in 2022 and 2023.

The inaugural event was held in September 2022 at Rich Harvest Farms as part of the LIV Golf Invitational Series, a golf series led by Greg Norman and funded by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund. The 48-player field featured several former major championship including Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, Charl Schwartzel, Patrick Reed and Sergio García,[1] and was won by 2022 Open champion Cameron Smith.[2]

Format

The tournament was a 54-hole individual stroke play event, with a team element. Four-man teams were announced on the Monday before the tournament, with a set number of their total scores counting for the team on each day. Each round commenced with a shotgun start, with the leaders beginning on the first hole for the final round, in order to finish on the eighteenth.[3]

Inaugural field

48 golfers participated in the inaugural LIV Chicago event.[a]

Teams

  • 4 Aces GC: Johnson (c), Gooch, Perez, Reed
  • Cleeks GC: Kaymer (c), McDowell, Canter, Bland
  • Crusher GC: DeChambeau (c), Casey, Howell III, Lahiri
  • Fireball GC: García (c), Ancer, Ortiz, Chacarra
  • HY Flyers GC: Mickelson (c), Wiesberger, Wolff, Tringale
  • Iron Heads GC: Na (c), Kaewkanjana, Khongwatmai, Kim
  • Majesticks GC: Westwood (c), Stenson, Poulter, Horsfield
  • Niblicks GC: Swafford, Piot, Pettit, Varner III
  • Punch GC: Ormsby, Jones, Leishman, Smith
  • Smash GC: B. Koepka (c), C. Koepka, Kokrak, Uihlein
  • Stinger GC: Oosthuizen (c), Schwartzel, Grace, Norris
  • Torque GC: Niemann, Vincent, Puig, Morgan

Winners

Individual

Year Tour(s)[b] Winner Score To par Margin of
victory		 Runners-up
LIV Golf Chicago
2024 LIV Spain Jon Rahm 199 −11 3 strokes Spain Sergio García
Chile Joaquín Niemann
2023 LIV, MENA United States Bryson DeChambeau 200 −13 1 stroke India Anirban Lahiri
Australia Marc Leishman
LIV Golf Invitational Chicago
2022 LIV Australia Cameron Smith 203 −13 3 strokes United States Dustin Johnson
United States Peter Uihlein

Team

Year Winners[a] Score
(to par)		 Margin of
victory		 Runners-up[a]
LIV Golf Chicago
2024 Crushers GC[c] −14 1 stroke Legion XIII[d]
2023 Crushers GC[c] −33 3 strokes Fireballs GC[e]
LIV Golf Invitational Chicago
2022 4Aces GC[f] −24 1 stroke Smash GC[g]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c (c) – Team captain
  2. ^ LIV − LIV Golf League; MENA − MENA Tour.
  3. ^ a b Paul Casey, Bryson DeChambeau (c), Charles Howell III and Anirban Lahiri
  4. ^ Tyrrell Hatton, Jon Rahm (c), Caleb Surratt and Kieran Vincent
  5. ^ Abraham Ancer, Eugenio Chacarra, Sergio García (c) and Carlos Ortiz
  6. ^ Talor Gooch, Dustin Johnson (c), Pat Perez and Patrick Reed
  7. ^ Brooks Koepka (c), Chase Koepka, Jason Kokrak and Peter Uihlein

References

  1. ^ "LIV Roster". LIV Golf. June 7, 2022. Retrieved June 7, 2022.
  2. ^ Priest, Evin (September 18, 2022). "Cam Smith wins LIV Golf's Chicago event, proves he's not 'a worse player' just because he switched tours". Golf Digest. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  3. ^ Scrivener, Peter (June 8, 2022). "LIV Golf - all you need to know about Saudi-funded series". BBC Sport. Retrieved June 12, 2022.